2) I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3) I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4) My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5) I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6) I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7) The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

8) I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

9) What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?